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  • the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of dependence that he renounced his rational faculty.†   (source)
  • It is true that we are not yet at open war with the Black Land, and there are some, close to the king's ear, that speak craven counsels; but war is coming.†   (source)
  • We shared a wall between our sideshow tents, venally baring ourselves to the curious and craven.†   (source)
  • There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.†   (source)
  • Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.†   (source)
  • I did an inexplicable and, I'm afraid, craven thing then.†   (source)
  • ....You mean to say that your cooks have all cravenly left for their homes?†   (source)
  • They are more accepted in France, where the doctors are less prone to craven orthodoxies.†   (source)
  • Happily these rumours were unfounded; but how craven — how callous!†   (source)
  • "The man is craven," Lord Hunter declared.†   (source)
  • He's a liar and a craven and anyhow he's a stag, not a lion.†   (source)
  • He is a pig, and a hopeless craven as well, if what you say is true.†   (source)
  • Better than you, you chinless craven, Tyrion thought.†   (source)
  • A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear.†   (source)
  • If you are truly so craven, why are you here?†   (source)
  • "Craven," he said, "rhymes nicely with raven."†   (source)
  • Qotho screamed taunts at him, calling him a craven, a milk man, a eunuch in an iron suit.†   (source)
  • Craven or not, Samwell Tarly had found the courage to accept his fate like a man.†   (source)
  • "Nobody likes cravens," he said uncomfortably.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me those prancing cravens will let me win?†   (source)
  • The gold cloaks say he turned craven and you led a sortie in his place.†   (source)
  • She resorts to craven, apologetic giggling, which annoys them further, and me also.†   (source)
  • And Lord Sweet huffed, "The craven sees an outlaw behind every blade of grass."†   (source)
  • One day in his bitterness he called Bael a craven who preyed only on the weak.†   (source)
  • From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven.†   (source)
  • Harvey Wellman was the district attorney in Craven County.†   (source)
  • I'm fat and I'm weak and I'm craven, but I did my duty.†   (source)
  • Not by his own hand, no. He is too fat and craven to do his own killing.†   (source)
  • The man was craven, but the favor Lady Lysa showed him made him insolent.†   (source)
  • Are you a craven as well as a killer, Brienne?†   (source)
  • You'll choke on them before you get any answers from me, craven.†   (source)
  • Arya rode Craven down to the docks to get a better look.†   (source)
  • Is that what troubles you, that some fool might call you craven?†   (source)
  • Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.†   (source)
  • Under that sweaty flesh beats a heart as craven and cringing as ...well ...yours.†   (source)
  • Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?†   (source)
  • Lord Gyles is too sickly to run and too craven to fight.†   (source)
  • "Some might call that craven," Lord Peasebury replied.†   (source)
  • She liked Craven at first look, asked Arya how she'd come by her, and grinned at her answer.†   (source)
  • I killed my king:' "The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.†   (source)
  • "Aye," the wildling repeated, "he's the craven killed the Halfhand.†   (source)
  • "Herons are craven," the big man put in.†   (source)
  • Stubborn or craven, what does it matter?†   (source)
  • A craven's knife can slay a queen as easily as a hero's.†   (source)
  • And she offered plenty of places for a craven to hide.†   (source)
  • The Hound watched her saddle Craven through eyes bright with fever.†   (source)
  • "So rather than look craven, you will dance to Lord Tywin's pipes?" she threw back.†   (source)
  • If you are too craven to face this turncloak king, we can return you to your ice cell.†   (source)
  • Lommy and the rest were looking at her, and she did not want to seem craven in front of them.†   (source)
  • The queen's men are saying that the King-Beyond-the-Wall died craven.†   (source)
  • The archmaesters are all craven at heart.†   (source)
  • One of Lord Beric's cravens?" called the knight in the spiked helm.†   (source)
  • But the man is craven, and will not come to us.†   (source)
  • The singer had to find a rhyme for craven, so ...†   (source)
  • Those who remained behind are the cravens, old men, and green boys.†   (source)
  • I know which lords are brave and which are craven, which are loyal and which are venal.†   (source)
  • I'd thought the man craven, but the day he confronted Aerys he found some courage somewhere.†   (source)
  • Now cravens like you want hard coin for a bite of wormy apple.†   (source)
  • "The harpy is a craven thing," Daario Naharis said when he saw it.†   (source)
  • He is not the Weeping Man, but he is no craven either.†   (source)
  • They're thieves and cravens, and they have green teeth from eating frogs.†   (source)
  • She could ride off on Craven and take Stranger too.†   (source)
  • From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven.†   (source)
  • And Craven might have been a coward, but she was young and strong as well.†   (source)
  • Those who die heroic deaths are long remembered, thieves and drunks and cravens soon forgotten.†   (source)
  • She would have to sell Craven, and hope she brought enough.†   (source)
  • We got no room for cravens,' and they buggered off and left me, and thousands more besides.†   (source)
  • Bran couldn't say it, though; he did not want Jojen to think he was craven.†   (source)
  • Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens.†   (source)
  • "I could," said Sam, sounding as gloomy as Dolorous Edd, "if I wasn't too craven to face them."†   (source)
  • Poison was for cravens, women, and Dornishmen.†   (source)
  • Only fat and weak, and the greatest craven in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • The sick ones and the weak ones, the slugabeds and cravens, get them on their bloody feet.†   (source)
  • Craven, Jaime thought, as Brienne fought to stifle her moans.†   (source)
  • His cigarettes, she notices, are also British—Craven A's.†   (source)
  • I needed some way of telling this Alex Thomas that Laura was only fourteen, but I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't make her angry Alex Thomas produced a packet of cigarettes from his shirt pocket — Craven A's, as I recall.†   (source)
  • Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.†   (source)
  • No matter how often Jon told himself that his place was here now, with his new brothers on the Wall, he still felt craven.†   (source)
  • What if they think we're craven too?†   (source)
  • "My lord father would never have sent men off to die while he huddled like a craven behind the walls of Winterfell," he said, all Robb the Lord.†   (source)
  • "...sooner die than live like that," muttered one, his father's namesake Eddard, and his brother Torrhen said likely the boy was broken inside as well as out, too craven to take his own life.†   (source)
  • "He truly is craven," said Grenn.†   (source)
  • "Craven!" the Greatjon thundered.†   (source)
  • Ser Alliser raged and threatened and called them all cravens and women and worse, yet Sam remained unhurt.†   (source)
  • Robert and his council of cravens and flatterers would beggar the realm if left unchecked ...or, worse, sell it to the Lannisters in payment of their loans.†   (source)
  • Women, cravens ...and eunuchs.†   (source)
  • The man had proved himself a craven.†   (source)
  • The cravenly ones will sit behind their walls waiting to see how the wind rises and who is likely to triumph.†   (source)
  • The terrible Lord Varamyr had gone craven, but he could not bear that she should know that, so he told the spearwife that his name was Haggon.†   (source)
  • His manner vacillated between hostility and a craven sort of fawning-like a stud mongrel that has been kicked too often.†   (source)
  • He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart's and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.†   (source)
  • You who are craven enough to believe that you can make terms with a mystic by giving in to his extortionsthere is no way to buy him off, the bribe he wants is your life, as slowly or as fast as you are willing to give it in-and the monster he seeks to bribe is the hidden blank-out in his mind, which drives him to kill in order not to learn that the death he desires is his own.†   (source)
  • Her parents had moved here after her father had taken a job as hospital administrator at Craven Regional Medical Center.†   (source)
  • Boros is a craven, Meryn is old and slow, your brother is maimed, the other two are off in Dome, and Osmund is a bloody Kettleblack.†   (source)
  • I have always been a craven, but I was never an oathbreaker till now If Maester Aemon had not died, Sam could have asked him what to do.†   (source)
  • Ryman Frey had been a fool, a craven, and a sot, and no one was like to miss him much, least of all his fellow Freys.†   (source)
  • Don't be so craven, he thought.†   (source)
  • No man likes to look craven in the sight of his fellows, so they'll fight brave enough at the start, when it's all warhorns and blowing banners.†   (source)
  • And if Dareon preferred a fire and a cup of mulled wine to stale bread and the company of a weeping woman, a fat craven, and a sick old man, who could blame him?†   (source)
  • I may be craven, but I'm not stupid.†   (source)
  • Slayer, you are such a craven.†   (source)
  • Dywen said Craster was a kinslayer, liar, raper, and craven, and hinted that he trafficked with slavers and demons.†   (source)
  • He had none of Sam's craven blood.†   (source)
  • A sot, a fool, and a craven.†   (source)
  • And even if Ser Osmund proved an utter craven, he would be no worse than Ser Boros Blount, currently residing in a dungeon at Rosby.†   (source)
  • Clever, craven Lyseni.†   (source)
  • Well, at the least you are no craven.†   (source)
  • I am still a craven, Jon.†   (source)
  • She had two drunkards and a craven too.†   (source)
  • "The great pig Manderly was too craven to leave White Harbor, or we would have brought him as well," shouted Red Helm.†   (source)
  • "This is craven," Ser Rodrik said.†   (source)
  • No man calls me craven before my king!†   (source)
  • Are you still a craven?†   (source)
  • If you were a man, I would kill you for that, but my sword is made of too fine a steel to besmirch with craven's blood.†   (source)
  • Who is this lowborn craven?†   (source)
  • One day I'll ride away on Craven, and he won't be able to catch me, she thought, but she never did that either.†   (source)
  • No craven's peace!†   (source)
  • Victarion was no craven, but no more was he a fool; he could not defeat three hundred ships with fifty-four.†   (source)
  • He is craven to the bone, that one.†   (source)
  • He is no craven.†   (source)
  • The man is craven, and a good thing.†   (source)
  • Cravens and traitors.†   (source)
  • Are you a craven who turned your cloak from fear, or is there another reason that brings you to my tent?†   (source)
  • Better a craven than a cannibal.†   (source)
  • A craven's trick.†   (source)
  • They are craven creatures.†   (source)
  • He could not understand why the gods would want to take Jon Snow and Bannen and leave him, craven and clumsy as he was.†   (source)
  • I know you are no craven.†   (source)
  • Hot Pie was stupid and craven, but he'd been with her all the way from King's Landing and she'd gotten used to him.†   (source)
  • Quentyn the Craven?†   (source)
  • There are good men and loyal among the new recruits, but also more brutes, sots, cravens, and traitors than you'd care to know.†   (source)
  • Are you craven?†   (source)
  • The wildling stared at him through the eyeholes of his helm, and said, "The free folk have no need of cravens."†   (source)
  • After that the girl stopped pestering her, and Arya spent her days grooming Craven and Stranger or walking in the woods.†   (source)
  • Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes ...we have plenty, as do you.†   (source)
  • The Hound had turned craven, she heard it said; at the height of the battle, he got so drunk the Imp had to take his men.†   (source)
  • The sellswords threw taunts at their backs as they pushed through the doors of the Merchant's House, mocking them as bloodless cravens and frightened girls.†   (source)
  • The Halfhand swore he'd see the craven dead first, but the wolf ripped Qhorin half t' pieces and this one opened his throat.†   (source)
  • They had two now, Stranger and a sorrel palfrey mare Arya had named Craven, because Sandor said she'd likely run off from the Twins the same as them.†   (source)
  • No man had ever called him craven.†   (source)
  • So craven you killed an Other.†   (source)
  • That I am a turncloak, and craven.†   (source)
  • I've proven I'm no craven.†   (source)
  • So why do I feel so craven?†   (source)
  • You're not craven like me.†   (source)
  • Fight, craven.†   (source)
  • But never craven.†   (source)
  • Craven, craven, craven.†   (source)
  • I'm a craven.†   (source)
  • Are you so craven?†   (source)
  • "I have no sword," he returned, "but if I did, I'd stick it through your belly and hack the balls off those four cravens."†   (source)
  • Mitty looked at him and at the craven figure of Benbow, who drank, and at the grave, uncertain faces of the two great specialists.†   (source)
  • Whatever you are afraid of, in your craven apprehension, Let me ask you at the least to put on pleas ant faces, And give a hearty welcome to our good Archbishop.†   (source)
  • Must I slink like a craven because I've lost the love of one man?†   (source)
  • A horrible quaking, craven fear possessed her soul.†   (source)
  • What did he care about a mean, haunted, craven-faced criminal?†   (source)
  • The vigilantes were bolstering up the craven Frenchy.†   (source)
  • "Did Dickon teach you that?" asked Dr. Craven, laughing outright.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven put his hands on both the boy's shoulders and held him still.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven had it shut when his wife died so sudden.†   (source)
  • "Mrs. Craven was a very lovely young lady," he had gone on rather hesitatingly.†   (source)
  • "I am not sure that I can allow it," answered Dr. Craven.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Craven sent it to you," said Martha.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven sent me to bring her to him in his study.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven got up and began to walk slowly across the room.†   (source)
  • "Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera," Mr. Craven had said in his short, cold way.†   (source)
  • "It—it was the garden Mr. Craven hates," said Mary nervously.†   (source)
  • "What is the matter?" said Dr. Craven, turning to look at her.†   (source)
  • "I'll call in again later in the afternoon, after he has come in," said Dr. Craven.†   (source)
  • It was because Mrs. Craven died like I told you.†   (source)
  • She saw that in a moment Dr. Craven's serious face relaxed into a relieved smile.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven read the letter twice before he put it back in its envelope.†   (source)
  • Why had Mr. Archibald Craven buried the key?†   (source)
  • "I am sorry to hear you were ill last night, my boy," Dr. Craven said a trifle nervously.†   (source)
  • Dr. Craven sat down by him and felt his pulse and looked at him curiously.†   (source)
  • He knows all th' things Mester Craven never troubles hissel' to find out.†   (source)
  • Dr. Craven held his chin in his hand and thought him over.†   (source)
  • "She's the best sick nurse I know," said Dr. Craven.†   (source)
  • So she sat and looked at him curiously for a few minutes after Dr. Craven had gone.†   (source)
  • Colin looked fretful and kept his strange black-lashed eyes fixed on Dr. Craven's face.†   (source)
  • An' she's Mr. Craven's—but I'm to do the housemaid's work up here an' wait on you a bit.†   (source)
  • He did not know that Dr. Craven would have said that his nerves had relaxed and rested themselves.†   (source)
  • "What will Dr. Craven say?" broke out Mary.†   (source)
  • I will ring for you when I want you to take her away," said Mr. Craven.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven scarcely heard her last words.†   (source)
  • And in the midst of the fun the door opened and in walked Dr. Craven and Mrs. Medlock.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven, he won't be troubled about any-thin' when he's here, an' he's nearly always away.†   (source)
  • "She's a shrewd woman," said Dr. Craven, putting on his coat.†   (source)
  • Dr. Craven came and looked at Colin long and carefully.†   (source)
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